1 Peter 2:1

Believers must put away malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander—sins that destroy fellowship. The new life requires actively laying aside love-killing sins.

Cross-references · 40

• Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Jas 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Jas 4:11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• 1 Pet 3:10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
• Col 3:5–8Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Titus 3:3–5For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Eph 4:22–25That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 1 Tim 3:11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• 1 Pet 4:4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
• Titus 2:3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
• 1 Cor 3:2–3I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
• Heb 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
• Jas 5:9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
• Ps 34:13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
• 1 Pet 4:2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• Gal 5:21–26Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Jas 3:16–17For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
• Ps 32:2Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
• Rom 13:12–13The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• 1 Pet 2:22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
• Ezek 18:31–32Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Matt 7:5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
• Ps 37:1Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
• Rom 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Matt 23:28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Luke 6:42Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
• Prov 24:1Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• Prov 3:31Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
• 1 Th 2:3For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
• 1 Pet 1:18–25Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• Luke 11:44Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
• Jas 3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
• Prov 24:19Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;
• Rev 14:5And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1 Sam 18:8–9And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
• 1 Pet 2:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

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